TURING TEST GROUP PRESENTATION REZA AHMADI ID: RAZZAK SIKDAR ID: EMEKA MOLOKWU ID: Timothy Lam ID: Yasien Siad ID:

TURING TEST! COMPUTER INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS ARE BECOMING EVER MORE SOPHISTICATED, AND ARE ABLE TO PERFORM COMPLEX, WORLDLY TASKS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY ONLY AVAILABLE TO HUMANS. ONE EXAMPLE OF THIS IS GOOGLE’S SELF DRIVING CAR. BUT AS SYSTEMS LIKE THESE PROGRESS, HOW WILL WE KNOW THE CURRENT STATE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. ONE POTENTIAL INDICATOR WAS PUT FORWARD BY LEGENDARY COMPUTER SCIENTIST ALAN TURING.

WHAT IS THE TURING TEST? The Turing Test states that a computer attached to a teletype (a tool of Turing’s era) should be able to conduct a conversation with a human, and the human should not be able to determine whether the agent they are communicating with is a computer or another human. Effectively the computer should be able to conduct a text based conversation with a person as well as a human being could. The Turing Test became a famous concept in the world of computer science, as an operational definition of intelligence in computers that could easily be measured.

TOTAL TURING The concept was further refined in the field to include the notion of a “total Turing Test,” in which the conversation is conducted over video. Not only would this require the computer to respond to visual cues in the interrogator, but it would require the computer to manipulate physical objects that may be passed “through the hatch” to it.

WHAT DOES THE TEST MEASURE? The Turing Test became a well known concept in the field of computer science, because it is an operational measure of a number of different facets of computer intelligence: Natural Language Processing Knowledge Represenation Automated Reasoning Machine Learning

THE CURRENT STATE OF THE TURING TEST The Turing test captured the imagination of many people in the domain of computer science, for its concrete vision of computer intelligence. Many attempts have been made to create a program that passes the Turing Test, and while some can fool a percentage of the population, there has yet to be a project that can fool a large majority. Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that the computing power and software sophistication will continue to develop, allowing for a Turing-capable machine to be built by 2029.

IS THE TURING TEST THE ANSWER? There have been a number of philosophical objections to the Turing Test being used as a measure of computer intelligence. Many argue that a Turing- capable machine is an example of “narrow” AI, or intelligence that is suited only to a specific task, rather than truly intelligent.

REFERENCE: "The Turing Test is part of the vocabulary of popular culture - it has appeared in works ranging from the Broadway play Breaking the Code to the comic strip "Robotman." Shieber, S.M. 2004, The Turing test: verbal behavior as the hallmark of intelligence, Mit Press, Cambridge, Mass. Turing Test (TT) is not, or was it intended to be, a trick; how well one can fool someone is not a measure of scientific progress. Stevan Harnad, Issue 4, Oct. 1992, The Turing Test is not a trick: Turing indistinguishability is a scientific criterion, New York, NY, USA Simple operational definition of intelligence, has now been with us for exactly half a century Robert M. French, 8 March 2000, The Turing Test: the first 50 years, Quantitative Psychology and Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium The phrase “The Turing Test” is most properly used to refer to a proposal made by Turing (1950) as a way of dealing with the question whether machines can think. The Turing Test, Wed Apr 9, 2003; substantive revision Thu Jul 28, 2005, test/, Accessed 3rd March 2016

REFERENCE….. Graham-Cumming, J. (2009) The real Turing test, New Scientist, 203 (2725), pp Last Accessed The paper discuss about the early stage of Turin. Muggleton, S. (2014) Alan Turing and the development of Artificial Intelligence, AI Communications, 27 (1), pp Last Accessed This paper investigates the early stage development of the machine learning Warwick, K. and Shah, H. (2016) Effects of lying in practical Turing tests, AI & Society, 31 (1), pp Last Accessed 2016 This Paper Investigates the determination between human and machine during live Turin test. Aron, J. (2015) Beyond Turing, New Scientist, 227 (3040), pp Last Accessed 2016 The article discusses the alleged problems in the use of Turing test evaluating the computer intelligence and artificial Intelligence.

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